Katey Sagal

Katey Sagal

Catherine Louise Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for playing Peggy Bundy on Married… with Children, Leela on Futurama, and Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011 for her role on Sons of Anarchy.

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Summary Katey SagalCatherine Louise Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for playing Peggy Bundy on Married… with Children, Leela on Futurama, and Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011 for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow on Sons of Anarchy. In 2019, she joined the cast of “The Connors” in which she portrays a love interest to the familial patriarch, Dan Conner. Sagal was born on January 19, 1954 in Los Angeles, California to a show business family with five children. She was a member of Bette Midler’s backup group The Harlettes in 1978, and again from 1982–83. She performed backing vocals on the self-titled Gene Simmons solo album, the Molly Hatchet album Take No Prisoners, and on Olivia Newton-John’s 1985 single ‘Soul Kiss’ She performed the song ‘It’s the Time for Love’ that appears in the movie Silent Rage featuring Chuck Norris.

She has described herself as ‘culturally Jewish’ but with no ‘formal religious experience.’ Her godfather is prominent sitcom producer and writer Norman Lear. Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a singer, producer, and television writer who died of heart disease in 1975. Her father, Boris Sagal, was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a director. Three of Sagal’s four siblings are actors: her younger twin sisters, Jean and Liz Sagal and brother Joey Sagal; her other brother David Sagal is an attorney married to actress McNally Sagal.